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Abhik Roy
Education
Western Michigan University
Ph.D. in Program Evaluation
Kalamazoo, MI
2016
Michigan Technological University
M.S. in Mathematics
Houghton, MI
2007
West Virginia Wesleyan College
B.S. in Mathematics
Buckhannon, WV
2001
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Current - 2016
- Advising masters and doctoral level students.
- Authoring and submitting papers to peer reviewed publications.
- Pulling data from multiple remote sources, constructing static, active, and interactive visualizations for production and/or embedding within reports, and building Shiny apps and APIs within the R/RStudio environment.
- Developing enhanced and interactive surveys in Qualtrics using HTML, CSS, & Javascipt.
- Evaluating various programs, projects, and grants.
- Teaching evaluation and methods based classes with a focus on data science.
Data Analyst
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
2016 - 2014
- Created web apps in Shiny and Tableau to pull, summarize, and visualize data from the organization’s Oracle database.
- Led and presented findings from small and large scale qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies.
- Prepared evaluation reports for various stakeholders.
- Researched and implemented predictive statistical models for student retention and graduation efforts.
Select Projects
Program Evaluator
Teaching Science with Computational Thinking: Preparing Preservice Elementary Educators of the Future STEM Workforce
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2022
- Implementing process and impact evaluations of program activities
- Conducting quantitative text analysis of written and interview data using machine learning
- Constructing and validating survey instruments used to assess progress and effect
- Total Amount: $294,958.00
Data Scientist & Program Evaluator
WVCTSI: West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2017
- Analyzing large data sets using frequentist and Bayesian methods.
- Conducting local and multi-site mutli-cluster evaluation studies.
- Developing/validating items and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Pulling, wrangling, and visualizing secondary data in R.
- Mentoring future graduate social data scientists.
- Total Amount: $20,000,000
- Website: PERC
Program Evaluator
Research Initiative: A Holistic Cross-Disciplinary Project Experience as a Platform to Advance the Professional Formation of Engineers
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2020
- Advising engineering faculty and graduate students on implementation of study methods.
- Conducting quantitative and qualitative studies on undergraduate student experiences within grant related programs.
- Total Amount: $200,000
Program Evaluator
GAUSSI: Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information: A Trans-Disciplinary Graduate Training Program in Biosensing and Computational Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
2020 - 2017
- Conducting biannual evaluations of multiple grant related programs.
- Developing and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Pulling, wrangling, and visualizing secondary data in R.
- Writing annual program and National Science Foundation reports.
- Total Amount: $3,013,779
Select Talks
Best of Both Worlds: Affordances of Mixing Machine Learning and Qualitative Content Analysis
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
2022
These Aren’t Random Words Just Strung Together?: Using Machine Learning and Pretty Visualizations to Discover Topics in Articles.
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
virtual
2020
Why Is It That Writers Write but Fingers Don’t Fing? Using Machine Learning and Lexemes to Make Sense of Nonsense.
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
Minneapolis, MN
2019